Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

　　女大学生凡伦黛（苏菲·玛索 Sophie Marceau 饰）正为了她的教师资格证而努力读书，某天，在滑雪场上，凡伦黛结识了充满了魅力的音乐家奈德（文森特·林顿 Vincent Lindon 饰），为了缓解考试带来的紧张和压力，凡伦黛和奈德之间发展出了一段露水情缘，两人非常有默契的达成了共识——只动性，不动情。没想到，一夜过后，凡伦黛竟然深深的迷恋上了奈德，奈德也暗暗被凡伦黛的魅力所折服。
　　分开后的两人无法常常见面，只能通过电话互诉衷肠，误会也油然而生。心高气傲的凡伦黛一气之下选择了离开奈德，奈德却无法放下对凡伦黛的爱意，阴差阳错之间，一对两情相悦的恋人眼看着就要擦肩而过。

　　故事讲述艾米，一个11岁的女孩，在学校加入了一个名为“可爱”的舞蹈团，她很快就意识到她日益增长的女性气质——在这个过程中，这让她的母亲和她的价值观感到不安。

　　Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them : what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

安东尼（让·雷谢夫 Jean Rochefort 饰）从小就对理发师这个职业情有独钟，在他所暗恋的理发师雪弗夫人（Anne-Marie Pisani 饰）猝死后，他决心长大后一定要娶一个理发师为妻。长大后的安东尼遇见了马蒂德（安娜·加列娜 Anna Galiena 饰），两人迅速坠入了爱河。虽然母亲不愿承认儿媳妇的存在而父亲又在重要关头心脏病突发过世，但安东尼要将马蒂德娶回家的信念从未动摇。
婚后的两人过着如胶似漆的幸福生活，甚至要比婚前更加甜蜜。他们整日黏在一起，用尽了各种方法探索彼此的精神和肉体，而就在这段美满的爱情即将到达顶峰的时候，马蒂德的自杀给予了安东尼沉重的一击，也让他迅速的陷入了困惑之中。